China in Cartoons II
The second volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out.1 I ‘reviewed‘ the first volume and concluded that Jing Liu is no Larry Gonick, but i...
Author: Alan Baumler
Extra syllabus blogging -Guan Yu meets Qiu Jin on the internet
Bonus syllabus blogging!1 Since I have received some really good advice about how to teach my classes from yunz, I thought I would try again. This is not a clas...
說曹操，曹操到
Now is the time in my Early China class when I get to the Three Kingdoms. This is usually a time some of the students have been waiting for, since they know the...
Syllabus blogging 3 –Modern China
Syllabus blogging 3 –Modern China Not as much to say about this. This is an upper-division course for majors and non-majors, and one I teach every few semesters...
Drugs and Empires in Asia -More syllabus blogging
So, as I got some help last time I asked for advice on what to teach next semester, here is what I have for HIST 403 Drugs and Empires in Asia. This is a senior...
Xi'an Walls
The city of Xi’an is in the process of re-building the city wall and adding four new museums, one each for the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. I was no...
1911 in 2013
I was going to do a post on how the Chinese world is remembering 1911, the overthrow of the Qing, and founding of the Chinese Republic. The answer seems to be t...
Syllabus blogging for Spring 2014-1
Today is October 10, which is both an important day in Chinese history and also means that I am late in getting in my book orders for Spring. In the past I have...
Chinese philosophy: The wild goose gradually draws near the tree
Update-The wild goose is getting closer to the tree Apparently we are experiencing a Chinese Philosophy Fever. The Atlantic has an article up on Michael Puett&#...
Why go to college?
Tea Leaf Nation has a post up on a micro-trend of Chinese kids not going to college, or at least one parent not being willing to pay for it, on the grounds that...
Vinegar Joe, cartoonist
I did not know that Stillwell’s diaries were transcribed and on-line at the Hoover. Vinegar Joe was the commander of U.S. forces in China during the firs...
The Chinese are topsy-turvy
One common theme that turns up a lot in older Western writings on China is the idea that China is the opposite of the West. Just take our, normal, rational way ...
Kids nowadays…
Need to read more Marx. Well, maybe they don’t, but it would make my job easier. I did a lot of Marx in my undergraduate days at Northern Illinois Univers...
Mixing water with water
Here is a dialogue (from the Zuozhuan) I used in class this week. The Duke declares “It is Ju alone who is in harmony with me.” Yanzi replied, “Ju is in f...